BMW’s electric car sales are rising, but it depends on where you look. Europeans are doing most of the buying, enough to offset a sharp decline in markets like China and the U.S.
The BMW Group delivered 110,257 fully electric vehicles in the third quarter, up 7.2% from a year earlier. Plug-in hybrids went the other way: subtracting EVs from its combined plug-in total gives 40,538 PHEV deliveries, down approximately 16.2%. Together, the two accounted for 150,795 deliveries, down 0.3%. These figures include Mini and Rolls-Royce, rather than just BMW-branded vehicles.
Still, that’s a much better EV sales result than BMW managed at the start of the year. Its first-quarter financial report recorded 87,488 BEV deliveries, down 20.1% over Q1 2025. The second quarter number recovered to 116,807 units, up 5.2% year over year. Q3 therefore extended that recovery, although total deliveries were lower than in Q2.
There’s still ground to make up. Through September, BMW Group’s electric deliveries totaled 314,552, down 2.7% from the January-September 2025 total. Nevertheless, one in five new vehicles delivered during Q3 was fully electric, while the group’s overall quarterly sales fell 6.3%. Electric cars were somewhat of a bright spot in an otherwise shrinking business.
That’s mostly thanks to Europe. The group delivered 81,941 EVs there in Q3, up 37.5%, with fully electric models accounting for 34.7% of its regional deliveries. That followed similarly strong growth in Q2, up 38%.
However, remove Europe from the worldwide figures and Q3 EV deliveries fall to 28,316.
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